Usually means: Illness, often fictional or exaggerated.
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  1. lurgy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. lurgy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lurgy: Wordnik
  4. lurgy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. lurgy: Wiktionary
  6. Lurgy (river), Lurgy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. lurgy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. lurgy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Lurgy: Idioms

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  1. lurgy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. lurgy: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang) Any uncategorised disease with symptoms similar to a cold or flu that renders one unable to work.

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